Hi Gordon,
I expect it will be used for analysis. There are certainly people
interested in using it.
regards,
Stephen.
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Gordon Watts wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm curious to know what the plans are for supporting analysis via
> panda (e.g. pathena)? I've seen SLAC setup as a test queue there. Is
> that just for testing, or is there a plan to eventually turn that on in
> production?
>
> Cheers,
> Gordon.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:owner-
>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Gowdy
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 6:35 PM
>> To: ATLAS SCCS Planning
>> Subject: Minutes from ATLAS/SCCS Planning Meeting 12th Dec 2007
>>
>> ATLAS SCCS Planning 12Dec2007
>> -----------------------------
>>
>> 9am, SCCS Conf Rm A, to call in +1 510 665 5437, press 1, 3935#
>>
>> Present: Wei, Stephen, Richard, Randy, Chuck, JohnB, JohnW, Len
>>
>> Agenda:
>>
>> 1. DQ2 Status/Web Proxy
>>
>> Production is running well. Using 300 CPUs most of the time. Have
>> enough data to run jobs. Have FUSE running on a few xrootd
>> machines. Also have a Berkeley version of SRM (BeStMan),
>> transferred
>> data from SLAC to UTA using FTS. This is called BeStManXroot but
> it
>> doesn't use any features of xrootd so it can be without it.
>>
>> For the dq2_put problem, it might be better to use noric09 which
>> has XrootdFS running.
>>
>> Do we know if the fairshare works correctly for ATLAS? We believe
>> so. There are users using some of it so it doesn't all go to
>> production.
>>
>> 2. Tier-2 Hardware
>>
>> Asked to replicate 12/13 release AOD. Would need about 40TB, don't
>> have enough space for this. Spending ATLAS money on disk would get
>> us about 200TB. We pushed ahead with the CPU spending as it was
>> desired. Can now get the 1TB disks so that will make disk pricing
>> more attractive. Currently in negotiation about storage
>> price. BaBar can probably wait till April for the next big
>> purchase. Alexei suggested getting AOD since 1st September. Not
>> sure how useful a definition that is but can meanwhile do that and
>> determine if there are requests for other data. Currently
> importing
>> 1 or 2TB of RDO data for trigger work.
>>
>> Order for CPUs went out about a week ago. Expect delivery before
>> Christmas but installation after the break. Will probably move
> some
>> machines from water cooled racks to Sun Black Box. The full set of
>> machines should be available early February. Existing ATLAS
>> machines will move to the second Black Box (it'll be half BaBar,
>> quarter ATLAS - all current installation - and quarter GLAST).
>>
>>
>>
>> 3. tcsh with larger environment space
>>
>> Taylor needs to copy it across to the machines. It'll go to
>> /usr/etc/tcsh and put that /etc/shells. Then users should ask for
>> their shell to be changed. Will need to be changed on Solaris too
>> to ensure you can have the same shell everywhere.
>>
>> 4. Tier2/3 Workshop
>>
>> Not much to say, it appears on the ATLAS e-News today.
>>
>> 5. AOB
>>
>> - Space for atl-prod02 mirror
>>
>> Reply from Wei's ticket saying there wasn't a 72GB one. Will have
>> another, perhaps larger one.
>>
>> Action Items:
>> -------------
>>
>> 071114 Stephen Attempt to use tcsh 6.14 to see if that solves
> env
>> problem
>> 071212 Done. Will deploy.
>
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